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    Life history evolution in evening primroses (Oenothera): Cole's paradox revisited

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    Author
    Evans, Margaret Eleanor Katharine
    Issue Date
    2003
    Keywords
    Biology, Ecology.
    Biology, Genetics.
    Advisor
    Venable, D. L.
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    Why some organisms reproduce just once in their lifetime (semelparity), while others reproduce more than once (iteroparity), has been a central question of life history theory since it was posed by Cole (1954). I used comparative studies at large (phylogenetic) and small (demographic) scales to address this question in a group of evening primroses (the Sections Anogra and Kleinia, genus Oenothera, Onagraceae) found in the arid and semiarid region west of the 100th meridian in North America. In the phylogenetic study, I found that changes in habit were not associated with the changes in aridity that I expected, based on the classic demographic model of Charnov and Schaffer (1973). Instead, this study suggested that changes to the annual habit were associated with increased temperature. I propose that temperature is an important factor influencing the favorability of the annual habit via the effect that temperature has on growth rate. The remaining two studies, comparing the performance of a closely-related desert annual and desert perennial in natural and experimental settings, also indicated that temperature correlated with habit. Using demographic data from natural populations, I evaluated seed banking and iteroparity as alternative means of bet hedging. I found evidence that bet hedging occurs via seed banking in both populations, and may occur via post-reproductive survival in the perennial populations. The demographic data did not clearly show the patterns expected to favor one form of bet hedging over the other. Based on an analysis of climate data, I suggest that cold temperatures are unfavorable to the annual habit. I compared the performance of the same species pair directly in two common environments. In this reciprocal common garden experiment, the annual outperformed the perennial when conditions were good, and when conditions became stressful relatively early. The annual, with lower leaf mass per area, more rapid above ground growth, and accelerated phenology, exhibits the classic stress-avoiding strategy of desert annuals, explaining the conditions under which it excelled. Relative to the annual, I describe the perennial as a stress-tolerator, and discuss water and temperature stress as two forms of stress it may excel at tolerating.
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    Ph.D.
    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Graduate College
    Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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    University of Arizona
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